Symfony 2.1.0 beta1 released

After more than 1,000 pull requests coming from 250 unique contributors, I'm
very pleased to release the first beta version of Symfony 2.1.

Before you got too excited, you must know that this is a beta release, meaning
that not everything is stable yet. As a matter of fact, we are aware of some
bugs that will be ironed out in the coming weeks.

Releasing a beta version now will allow anyone to try out this new version, to
try upgrading their existing websites, and more importantly for us, to gather
feedback about the upgrade process. And the good news is that many third-party
bundles have already been updated for 2.1. So, if you upgrade to 2.1, and if
something is not clear enough from the various changelog and
upgrade
files, open a ticket so that we can make the migration process as smooth as
possible.

Besides the numerous changes in the code, one of the major changes in Symfony
2.1 is the usage of Composer for dependency
management. If you know nothing about Composer yet, I highly encourage
everyone to read about it and to install it globally on their machines:

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

If you want to try out Symfony 2.1, the easiest way (or perhaps the coolest
way) is to use Composer:

The whole Symfony core team (everyone actually) should now be focused on
making 2.1 stable before starting working on 2.2, for which we already have
quite a few very nice features waiting in the pull request queue (that's also
why I will only create the 2.1 branch when releasing the first release
candidate).

I've been testing the beta1 release for few days and so far I haven't found anything broken. Runs very smooth and I am very happy with the bundles available - I've installed the most common bundles - all work fine. The composer is nice addition too, thanks guys